Enterprise Automation & DevSecOps
$1.2M annual savings on a $500M defense program, then $100K+/quarter on active military systems.
At Lockheed Martin, I led DevSecOps and integration engineering across active, mission-critical missile-defense systems. I architected an enterprise automation platform that eliminated two weeks of manual effort per release cycle on a $500M defense program, generating $1.2M in annual savings. Later, I automated image approval and deployment pipelines for active military systems, reducing deployment timelines by 90% and generating $100K+ in quarterly savings — while strengthening security posture and audit trails in regulated environments.
01. Enterprise automation on a $500M program
As Integration Lead and Product Owner on a major defense program, I architected an enterprise automation platform that eliminated two weeks of manual effort per release cycle. The program involved 150+ engineers across multiple disciplines, and the manual release process was a bottleneck — compliance gates, manual approvals, environment provisioning, and artifact promotion all required coordinated effort from multiple teams. The platform automated environment provisioning, artifact promotion, compliance validation, and release orchestration. I defined the DevSecOps modernization roadmap aligned with compliance and mission-readiness objectives, ensuring every automation investment also strengthened the security and audit posture. The result was $1.2M in annual cost avoidance while improving delivery velocity.
02. Image approval and deployment for active military systems
On active military systems, I built automated image approval and deployment pipelines that reduced deployment timelines by 90%. The challenge was that container image approval required manual review, manual signing, and manual promotion through multiple security-checked environments. I automated the entire pipeline: image scanning, policy enforcement, cryptographic signing, environment promotion, and deployment orchestration — while preserving the audit trail required for regulated environments. The system generated $100K+ in quarterly savings by eliminating manual touch labor and reducing troubleshooting time by hundreds of hours per quarter.
03. Resilience improvements in Kubernetes environments
I led resilience improvements across the Kubernetes infrastructure, implementing automated health checks, self-healing workflows, canary deployments, and gradual rollback procedures. These improvements decreased unplanned downtime by 50% and made the deployment pipeline more predictable under the high-change conditions characteristic of active development on fielded systems.
04. Automated testing with computer vision and OCR
I implemented automated testing frameworks incorporating computer vision and OCR technologies to validate UI behavior and system outputs in environments where traditional testing approaches were insufficient. This included visual regression testing, OCR-based content validation, and automated screen-capture analysis integrated into the CI/CD pipeline — catching defects before they reached production environments.
05. Operating in regulated environments
All of this work happened in environments governed by strict compliance requirements — security clearance prerequisites, audit trails, change management boards, and cryptographic signing mandates. Every automation decision had to account for regulatory constraints without sacrificing velocity. The approach was to automate the compliance validation itself — making it faster to pass an audit, not easier to skip one.
Delivered measurable, auditable savings in two separate defense program contexts: $1.2M/year through enterprise automation on a $500M program, and $100K+/quarter through deployment pipeline automation on active military systems. Deployment time reduced by 90%, downtime reduced by 50%, and testing coverage expanded through computer vision and OCR automation — all within regulated, mission-critical environments.